Comic Book Resourcespointed out
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that the Eisner nominating committee snubbed the “Best New Series” category–something that seems almost unbelievable at a time where DC relaunched its line, flooding the market with 52 new #1 issues including many that are new series by any measure and a number of those which are unassailably awesome.CBR encouraged its readers to take to the message board and nominate their favorites, using only the rules that the series you nominated has to be an ongoing book which had at least two issues published in 2011. It sounded like a good idea to us but, armed with five new titles that made our Top 10 Ongoing Comics of 2011 list, it only seemed fair and sensible to open the floor a bit to some other opinions and maybe consider some of the ones we’d missed. The result was this list of ten awesome titles, brand new to last year, that were inexplicably ignored by the Eisners.To make the discussion a little bit easier, no series which has existed as an ongoing series in the last ten years (Superman, Batman, Daredevil) was allowed on the list, although books which featured established characters in new-to-market titles (Wolverine & the X-Men, for example) or in their first ongoing in years (O.M.A.C. and Animal Man0 were eligible to make it. Is that splitting hairs? Perhaps, but in a marketplace that’s driven largely by corporate-owned properties which are published in perpetuity, seeing a character disappear for ten years and then suddenly appear back on your shelves sure makes it feel like a new series to us.And at the end of the day, while a few of these characters have been around for a while, there’s only one title on this list that has ever existed before as the name of an ongoing comic book series.That may not be a standard guideline for the Eisner judges, but even removing the one title that’s ever been an ongoing before and the
